Blizzard lock flying, people complain, blizzard release flying, people still complain, blizzard give free flying, people WILL still complain. so to fix that. just remove flying, and remove mounts, you can only walk,run, and enjoy running into each other Alliance vs Horde like on the road, and you look 20 yards away you see someone else getting hit butt kicked. so removing mounts perma is the option.
People complain.
lol you got me there. but what am trying to say is no matter what you do as a Developer, wont be able to make everyone happy
There’s an easy solution - just make flying unlocked right away for everyone at level 60, don’t talk about it on the forums, don’t mention it in Q and A’s and don’t ever, ever let people think they’re being time gated over and over by putting arbitrary requirements on unlocking it.
You make a problem disappear by not making the problem in the first place. The only problem with flying before was a developer problem, not a player one.
You know what…I love flying. Having it is one of the best parts of the game, and has easily kept me playing WoW a good 7-8 years longer than I normally would.
Anyone who thinks it’s acceptable to spend 30 minutes on one quest to find starfish or cones or whatever, just to get 50-75 measly rep…that is not good gameplay. That is not fun. Even sitting here in the middle of a week-long vacation I have NO desire to play this game anymore. Not knowing that every damned BASIC part of gameplay is being locked behind ridiculous time gating.
lets say your the developer of this game, flying unlocked right away when expansion hits, everyone flys! boom 2 hours all content quests are done. they come cry on forums…
Not an issue if you have mechanics in the game to keep players INTERESTED in doing content. If your game really equates to only 2 hours of content, then is it really worth the initial cost, expansions continuing and the monthly sub?
I doubt it.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if the Dragon Isles were the setting for the next expansion, and we found out they were a bunch of miniature continents suspended in mid-air due to magical means?
Flying is now not only the most efficient way to get from point A to point B, it is now the most exciting way to explore the new zones because they are specifically built to be experienced through flight.
All of a sudden content isn’t being trivialized by flight because it’s the only way to do the content.
Lemme stop ya right there. No.
I’ve been around since tbc. Including the forums. Complaints about flying in timeline form.
Tbc - it’s too expensive! Some areas look unfinished from above.
WOLK - why do I need cold weather flying?
Cata - (I quit over this expac so I’m unsure)
Mop - Why can’t I fly in timeless isle?
WoD - why can’t I fly?
Legion - why do we need pathfinding?
BFA - SERIOUSLY WHY DO WE NEED PATHFINDING?
Sure some don’t like flying. You know why Blizzard didn’t change it for several expansions? One because not many complained about it and two if you don’t want to fly…
THEN DON’T.
Maybe if the game’s longevity weren’t predicated on people running the same 8 dungeons and then repeat repeat repeating daily quests over and over then there’d be something to look forward to. I remember back in the olden days you spent a lot of time idling in the cities and that’s where you’d see all sorts of cool things like people wearing matching sets and raid gear - can’t get that nowadays with mogs and everyone having 8 expansions worth of gear to choose from.
Thanks for agreeing that this game offers poor content and they have to timegate flying to hide their poor content.
Exactly.
No one, and I mean no one, was against flying until one of the developers started whining about it publicly. Then all of a sudden folks who wanted to kiss up to Blizz (and trolls who wanted to see the world burn) started piling on.
9.0 Titan Starship Invasion.
Entire expac will be “indoor” inside starships.
No mount allowed.
How long did it take you to dream up that nonsense OP?
I’m surprised he didn’t ask to remove running and just leave RP walking.
Your post would never be read on the forums because people would be posting 100 threads per second if that happened.
No, they will not be able to make everyone happy.
But removing flight is the thing that would make the most people UNHAPPY.
The anti-flight crowd is tiny by comparison to the people who like flight.
So they should just put flight in earlier and without too much restriction like they once did. That would make the most people happy. Even if a few people grumble they don’t like flight.
B…bu…but… How would we keep our time played metrics up if people aren’t grinding for hours to fly?!
You mean the anti-fliers and wpvp .
Players were complaining of wpvp before flying was even released as well.
The anti-fliers where fooled to believe this is social experiment.
Nothing more can be said about them just smile and wave
I’m down for no longer flying.